Porter, Georgia

10 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1956 and the latest in 1988. It stands in the Cochran census division. It lies in ZIP code area 31014. It stands on Coley Creek. The Survey maps it on the Westlake quadrangle.

Porter within Bleckley County

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 10 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

1956 USGS Cochran quadrangle1:62500, 2 printings
1957 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1958 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000
1964 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
1974 USGS Westlake quadrangle1:24000
1977 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1978 USGS Hawkinsville quadrangle1:100000
1988 USGS Macon quadrangle1:250000

Fires near this place

428 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 428 fires within 5 miles of Porter between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,140 acres in total. 10 started naturally. 13 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	300
Equipment and vehicle use	32
Smoking	31
Arson/incendiarism	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	12
Recreation and ceremony	11
Natural	10
Railroad operations and maintenance	10
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	9

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
5 September 2008	Debris and open burning	1.7 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
5 September 1997	Debris and open burning	1.8 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
4 September 2005	Equipment and vehicle use	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 2006	Debris and open burning	5.0 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 September 1993	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
3 September 1993	Smoking	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
27 September 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-BLECKLEY-016
27 September 2008	Recreation and ceremony	1.3 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Bleckley County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Place	Distance	Sheets
Coley	1.2 miles	10
McGriff (historical)	1.6 miles	10
Paulk	1.9 miles	10
Royal	2.5 miles	10
Cochran	3.0 miles	10
Five Points	4.2 miles	10
Ainslie (historical)	4.5 miles	10
Frazier	6.8 miles	10

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 326476. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.